camden

Hi,
Sorry to cross post but my kids have a question. They want to watch the Star Wars series of movies & they want to know where to start & if you all have a list of all the Star War movies.

And help would be great.

Thanks
Carol


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Deb

Hmm they could do it in release order in which case it's:
Episode 4 A New Hope
Episode 5 Empire Strikes Back
Episode 6 Return of the Jedi
Episode 1 The Phantom Menace
Episode 2 Attack of the Clones
Episode 3 Revenge of the Sith

OR they could just do them in numerical order 1-6. There are pluses
and minuses to both. We (DH and I) saw the first 3 (4-6) way back when
then 1-3 as they came out. DS saw them 1, 4-6, 2, 3 (since after
seeing the first one he wanted to see all the rest). And we've since
watched them all in order (when Episode 3 hit DVD, we bought it then
did a series, one per night for a week per DS' request). We also have
Thumb Wars and Spaceballs (both of which rely heavily on Star Wars).
And we have Lego Star Wars video game for the PS2.

I would note that if you have younger or sensitive kids, you might
want to screen episode 3 ahead of time - there are several 'difficult'
scenes.

--Deb

Daniel MacIntyre

I HIGHLY recommend watching episode 4 first. It has the strongest story
line of the lot, but if you watch the others ahead of it, you will be
disappointed by the "primitive" special effects and slow lightsaber duels
(obiwan and vader don't do much besides shake their weapons at eachother).
Also, the revelation of luke and vader's relationship is something you DON'T
want to spoil!

Just my two cents...

On 1/18/06, Deb <soggyboysmom@...> wrote:
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> Hmm they could do it in release order in which case it's:
> Episode 4 A New Hope
> Episode 5 Empire Strikes Back
> Episode 6 Return of the Jedi
> Episode 1 The Phantom Menace
> Episode 2 Attack of the Clones
> Episode 3 Revenge of the Sith
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> OR they could just do them in numerical order 1-6. There are pluses
> and minuses to both. We (DH and I) saw the first 3 (4-6) way back when
> then 1-3 as they came out. DS saw them 1, 4-6, 2, 3 (since after
> seeing the first one he wanted to see all the rest). And we've since
> watched them all in order (when Episode 3 hit DVD, we bought it then
> did a series, one per night for a week per DS' request). We also have
> Thumb Wars and Spaceballs (both of which rely heavily on Star Wars).
> And we have Lego Star Wars video game for the PS2.
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> I would note that if you have younger or sensitive kids, you might
> want to screen episode 3 ahead of time - there are several 'difficult'
> scenes.
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Daniel
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"When the solution is simple, God is answering."
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Danielle Conger

Deb wrote:

> We also have
> Thumb Wars and Spaceballs (both of which rely heavily on Star Wars).
> And we have Lego Star Wars video game for the PS2.
>
> I would note that if you have younger or sensitive kids, you might
> want to screen episode 3 ahead of time - there are several 'difficult'
> scenes.
>

We also really love Volume 1 and 2 of the Cartoon Network Attack of the
Clones--it fills in all the back story between Episode II and III.

I would totally recommend screening III as well; Sam and Jules both had
major issues with it even though I tried to prepare them. I knew there
was no way we could see it in the theater, but even home it was too intense.


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~~Danielle
Emily (8), Julia (7), Sam (5)
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camden

Thanks for the screening recommendation. I have a couple who probably won't
want to watch that episode. I'll make sure to have something they feel
more comfortable watching set up in the other room.

Carol

Thanks to everyone who sent me the list of movies :)

>
> I would totally recommend screening III as well; Sam and Jules both had
> major issues with it even though I tried to prepare them. I knew there
> was no way we could see it in the theater, but even home it was too
> intense.
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>
> --
> ~~Danielle
> Emily (8), Julia (7), Sam (5)
> http://www.danielleconger.com/Homeschool/Welcomehome.html
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> ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

Deb

--- In [email protected], Danielle Conger
<danielle.conger@g...> wrote:
> I would totally recommend screening III as well; Sam and Jules
>both had
> major issues with it even though I tried to prepare them. I knew
>there
> was no way we could see it in the theater, but even home it was
>too intense.
>
>
We saw episode 3 at the drive in originally (well, Dh and I saw it
at the theater on opening night - FIL had gotten his hands on free
passes but he never goes to the theater - DS had already said that
he wanted to wait until it was at the drive in not in the movie
theater because it looked like it would be too loud and scary in the
theater). Due to the nature of drive in theaters, DS fell asleep
about halfway through the climactic battle on Mustafar. He's seen
episode 3 in its entirety at home since then a couple of times.
Something that helps him with stuff like this is that I'm kind of
squirmy about it too so I'll cover my eyes when I know something is
coming up and he can hide with me or watch or a little of both,
sometimes I'll peek through my fingers and he'll peek through his
fingers and we'll peek at each other and grin until the rough part
is over.

--Deb

Deb

--- In [email protected], Daniel MacIntyre
<daniel.macintyre@g...> wrote:
>
> I HIGHLY recommend watching episode 4 first. It has the strongest
>story
> line of the lot, but if you watch the others ahead of it, you will
>be
> disappointed by the "primitive" special effects and slow >lightsaber
duels
> (obiwan and vader don't do much besides shake their weapons at
>eachother).
> Also, the revelation of luke and vader's relationship is something
>you DON'T
> want to spoil!

I asked DH last night and he said basically the same thing - do them
in the order they were released - for the same basic reasons.

--Deb